The South will comply with any conditions but suffrage for the negro. 1881. It must cease to recognize the old slave-masters as the only competent persons to rule the South. Source: Source unknown. The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations. Here they are, four millions of them, and, for weal or for woe, here they must remain. Give the negro the elective franchise, and you at once destroy the purely sectional policy, and wheel the Southern States into line with national interests and national objects. If these bless them, they are blest indeed; but if these blast them, they are blasted indeed. Here they are, four millions of them, and, for weal or for woe, here they must remain. It was a war of the rich against the poor. The hope of gaining by politics what they lost by the sword, is the secret of all this Southern unrest; and that hope must be extinguished before national ideas and objects can take full possession of the Southern mind. It is to save the people of the South from themselves, and the nation from detriment on their account. Founded in 1969 and hailed by The New York Times as a journal in which the writings of many of todays finest black thinkers may be viewed, THE BLACK SCHOLAR has firmly established itself as the leading journal of black cultural and political thought in the United States and remains under the editorship of Robert Chrisman, Editor-In-Chief, Robert Allen, Senior Editor, and Maize Woodford, Executive Editor. Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931--Correspondence, - And does not the Emperor of Russia act wisely, as well as generously, when he not only breaks up the bondage of the serf, but extends him all the advantages of Russian citizenship? And does not the Emperor of Russia act wisely, as well as generously, when he not only breaks up the bondage of the serf, but extends him all the advantages of Russian citizenship? The lamb may not be trusted with the wolf. What OConnell said of the history of Ireland may with greater truth be said of the negros. He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. Many daring exploits will be told to their credit. A nation might well hesitate before the temptation to betray its allies. While nothing may be urged here as to the past services of the negro, it is quite within the line of this appeal to remind the nation of the possibility that a time may come when the services of the negro may be a second time required. Give the negro the elective franchise, and you at once destroy the purely sectional policy, and wheel the Southern States into line with national interests and national objects. Sprague, Rosetta Douglass--Correspondence, - Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879--Correspondence, - The soil is in readiness, and the seed-time has come. or will you profit by the blood-bought wisdom all round you, and forever expel every vestige of the old abomination from our national borders? There is that, all over the south, which frightens Yankee industry, capital, and skill from its borders. Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as In a pair of Atlantic articles in 1866 and '67, Douglass addressed members of the 39th session of Congress, urging them to give black Americans the right to vote. They now stand before Congress and the country, not complaining of the past, but simply asking for a better future. It is nothing against this reasoning that all men who vote are not good men or good citizens. But this mark of inferiority--all the more palpable because of a difference of color--not only dooms the negro to be a vagabond, but makes him the prey of insult and outrage everywhere. or will you profit by the blood-bought wisdom all round you, and forever expel every vestige of the old abomination from our national borders? Question 4 60 seconds Q. Carrie Chapman uses the words of which historical men to persuade to congress to allow women to vote? African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress). <> In fact, all the elements of treason and rebellion are there under the thinnest disguise which necessity can impose. Does any sane man doubt for a moment that the men who followed Jefferson Davis through the late terrible Rebellion, often marching barefooted and hungry, naked and penniless, and who now only profess an enforced loyalty, would plunge this country into a foreign war to-day, if they could thereby gain their coveted independence, and their still more coveted mastery over the negroes? JFIF H H Exif MM * b j( 1 r2 i An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with something more familiar. African Americans--Washington (D.C.), - Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, -1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Frederick or Helen Pitts Douglass, 1881 to 1887; "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," 1881. As a nation, we cannot afford to have amongst us either this indifference and stupidity, or that burning sense of wrong. While nothing may be urged here as to the past services of the negro, it is quite within the line of this appeal to remind the nation of the possibility that a time may come when the services of the negro may be a second time required. Is not Austria wise in removing all ground of complaint against her on the part of Hungary? It is plain that, if the right belongs to any, it belongs to all. The fundamental and unanswerable argument in favor of the enfranchisement of the negro is found in the undisputed fact of his manhood. The new wine must be put into new bottles. or will you profit by the blood-bought wisdom all round you, and forever expel every vestige of the old abomination from our national borders? Douglass, F. (1881) Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, -1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Frederick or Helen Pitts Douglass, 1881 to 1887; "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," 1881. Nations, not less than individuals, reap as they sow. Four specific "thesis" ideas: 1. by John W. Blassingame (transcription project) If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks. It may be traced like a wounded man through a crowd, by the blood. Yet the negroes have marvelously survived all the exterminating forces of slavery, and have emerged at the end of two hundred and fifty years of bondage, not morose, misanthropic, and revengeful, but cheerful, hopeful, and forgiving. All Rights Reserved. An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage "Statesmen, beware what you do. An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage :: :: University of But in a country like ours, where men of all nations, kindred, and tongues are freely enfranchised, and allowed to vote, to say to the negro, You shall not vote, is to deal his manhood a staggering blow, and to burn into his soul a bitter and goading sense of wrong, or else work in him a stupid indifference to all the elements of a manly character. Loyalty is hardly safe with traitors. Yet, as Douglass explains, citizenship has no meaning without the right to vote. This evil principle again seeks admission into our body politic. The work of destruction has already been set in motion all over the South. Also, this shows us that American is formed from different race and also different culture that 's what make the US. The ploughshare of rebellion has gone through the land beam-deep. As you members of the Thirty-ninth Congress decide, will the country be peaceful, united, and happy, or troubled, divided, and miserable. Find an answer to your question Language Development: Convention and Style-from "Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," Frederick Douglass I need this pl NarminZan20 NarminZan20 01/07/2021 You shudder to-day at the harvest of blood sown in the spring-time of the Republic by your patriot fathers. Building on two centuries' experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidlyover the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher.The Group publishes over 800 journals and over 1,800 new books each year, coveringa wide variety of subject areas and incorporating the journal imprints of Routledge,Carfax, Spon Press, Psychology Press, Martin Dunitz, and Taylor & Francis.Taylor & Francis is fully committed to the publication and dissemination of scholarly information of the highest quality, and today this remains the primary goal. It is true that, notwithstanding their alleged ignorance, they were wiser than their masters, and knew enough to be loyal, while those masters only knew enough to be rebels and traitors. Is not Austria wise in removing all ground of complaint against her on the part of Hungary? From "Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" - Brainly We have thus far only gained a Union without unity, marriage without love, victory without peace. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Richardson family--Correspondence, -